Just over a year ago, our son was born. An intended home birth, we ended up in a cesarean after 67 hours of non-progressive back labor. The day after returning home from from the hospital, I wrote the following. I am sharing it here now with the hopes that it may speak to you or […]

Yesterday I was watching my 5-month old as he struggled and struggled and struggled to reach out and grasp his favorite chewable book. He was on his stomach and the book was just barely within his reach. Except, every time he reached for it, his fingers would brush it and push it further away from […]

Last week, I had a conversation with a close friend that made quite an impression on me. We were talking about my business and she said something about how it seems to her that I’ve never fully committed to my business, at least not in the same way that she has seen me commit to […]

Hear ye! Hear ye! Malidoma Somé, African elder, teacher, and mentor, is returning to Portland! He will be offering personal divinations and a one-day ritual focused on the mineral element and knowing/living your purpose. To hear a story about how receiving a divination from him resolved one of the burning questions of my life, continue […]

It was nearly a year ago when I first met Hops, the hare. I was stuck in one of those loops, one of those endless mental loops. My mind was circling and circling and circling, constantly repeating this one scenario that ended time after time with this super intense feeling of barely repressed terror and […]